Check out this video from Iowa State Senator Matt McCoy, the first openly gay member of the legislature. It’s worth five minutes of your time. And here’s hoping Virginia is paying attention, particularly Virginia Democrats.
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VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Unfortunately, I have a family member who is lesbian and another who is transgendered. It is enough to make one wonder about one’s gene pool. I blame atmospheric testing of nukes back in the 1960s, but who can say why we have a sudden surge in the gender queer population and lesbianism.
Speaking strictly from personal experience with my relatives, I am certain that both of them would not have chosen their orientation if that option was available. They are who they are, and it is not their fault that they were delt the queer card.
I have been active in the GLBT rights movement for decades because of these two family members. I don’t advocate for special rights, just that gay and TG people be treated as fairly as every other citizen.
In America today, the only segments of our population who are not afforded some sort of “protected status” are the transgendered, and White Men.
When it comes to Marriage, I agree with the evangelical bible-thumper bigots, on one minor point: that marriage is defined as the union of one man and one woman. However, I see no reason that some form of civil union cannot be permitted, so that same-gender couples can share the same legal rights as those “enjoyed” by traditional, married couples.
By the way, during the last Virginia marriage debate, Bob Marshall pointed out that Virginia law already allowed for same-gender couples to enter into all of the same covenants recognized by marriage, including survivorship and hospital visitation rights.
In spite of all of the blather generated by Equality Virginia and other self serving, “advocacy” groups, GLBT couples can and do, share all of the rights of married couples, without forcing society to compromise the traditional definition of marriage.
Virginia does not need to re-define marriage, since the right to form “civil” covenants and contracts already exists under current law. As for the term, “Marriage” I would have to say that the modern definition would be, Marriage (also see lease): A temporary living arrangement between a man and a woman that typically ends, in about half of the cases, within a seven year period. Then the man spends the next ten years paying the former wife a form of extortion, colloquially referred to as either child support or alimony.
Frankly, I think the hetero community can keep marriage for themselves.